The Urban City ( TTU POLICY )
The Urban City
( TTU POLICY )
Contemporary Urban cities such as alpha - beta global and cosmopolitan cities have undergone a massive demographic
and functional change. These
new types of citie tend to have a higher proportion of diasporas and periodic influxes of migration and because of this has a population that is more
heterogeneous and transient. Further,
they have become more service and tourist orientated and work in these
cites more part time, more flexible,
more zero hours...
Some, not all of
these zero hour posts have been take up by ' migrants'.
Migration
has a diversity of ‘push –pull reasons’ and many also have to take on
low pay zero hour labour. For example, ' Migrants, migrate for many reasons and war, education,
employment, economics, tourism, family reunification, marriage, asylum and even
lifestyle choice are amongst many decisons. These decisons have socio-political,
cultural, gender and economic differences.
Certainly the image of ‘migrant’
as being only a poor asylum seeker or economic drain on urban society is
not bore out fully in reality. The
International British Council has reported that international student migration
has risen: “considerably faster over the last three decades
than total international migration.”
Therefore an economically and educated migratory population may have
transferable social and economic capital and can transfer that knowledge across
and or buy in resources to help orientation and settlement. On the other hand a poorer uneducated
migratory population has less transferable social and economic capital and is
more dependent on the receiving countries either existing communities or social
and voluntary resources. Either way the
functions of cities are changing and migration is on the rise.
Although net migration records and
statistics are often estimated, current migratory trends forecast that there
will be an ever increasing number of migrants arriving into UK cities with a
diversity of needs.
In the second decade of the 21st
century, population movement is
arguably now on a higher and unprecedented scale than it’s ever been and it’s
been estimated that half the world’s population are living in cities with most migration and
population growth taking place in these
urban areas. Cohen, argues that
this fast growth is : ‘outstripping the capacity of most cities to
provide adequate services for their
‘citizens.
Fast growth is : ‘outstripping the capacity of most cities to
provide adequate services for their citizens'
From a TORY TRUMP UKIP, (TTU) policy,
citizenship, etnicity and gender
perspective these are highly significant variables when calculating the worth
of labour for the the neo liberalist, Tory, Panama econmic. ( indeed how much
of yiur labour value might a tory be able to extract ...yet i digress) of
people heading to cities that already
seem unable or unwilling to full fill
the needs and required services of even
the indigenous urban populations.
ENTER TTUP
Yes, Cities are
changing and resources seem
struggling and for all the
theoretical, census and other
statistical fore warnings from the BBC and the ' Market anaylisis' argues in his online
article that: “Business base, visitors, and other users, have
accelerated of the magic money tree not being in advance of the ability of
cities and regions to invest in the infrastructure, amenity, and facilities
required to manage and shape that roots growth TTU tends to be growing.
Whether one agrees
with the Tories, Trump, and UKIP
( TTU ) policy that migration
has accelerated we need to be aware that well in advance that TTU is an ‘ambivalent’
neo liberal economic and social
oversight, and that much
recent private and academic research
indicates that the real outcome of this ‘inability to keep up’ is severe inequalities in access to adequate housing and health and welfare
resources for all but particularly the poor migrant communities.
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